Clay Quote by James Alexander Thom

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

— Bernard Malamud

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

— Steven Erikson

past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it.

— Skyla

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

— Kate Forsyth

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

— Margaret Atwood

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

— Michael Ende

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

— Felix Adler

“That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances,…

— Erin Morgenstern

Changing the story doesn't alter the past. Our past makes us who we are but how we deal with it shows the metal we're…

— Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell

“Thinking about the past is like digging up graves”

— Nathan Filer

“We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we…

— Janet Lee Carey

“We are all tellers of tales, and we seek to provide our scattered and often confusing experiences with a sense of coherence by arranging…

— Dan P. McAdams